re: Manchester United 2012-13 Season Long Thread(Posted by TN Bhoy on 10/23/12 at 11:17 pm to WarSlamEagle)

Can someone explain Sir Alex's transfer policy to me? Your defense is terrible, so you bring in a bunch of midfielders and forwards? I've got a ManU friend who was thrilled that y'all were linked to Kaka. It's strange.

re: Manchester United 2012-13 Season Long Thread(Posted by rsande2 on 10/24/12 at 11:14 am to TN Bhoy)

quote:Can someone explain Sir Alex's transfer policy to me? Your defense is terrible, so you bring in a bunch of midfielders and forwards?

How do you know he didn't try? We were in on Moutinho but it didn't work out, who knows about other names and who knows that we aren't targeting someone for the winter? Cleverly may actually be ok in this role but the jury is still out on him. All I know is he was starting to show some promise before getting hurt last year. I think we thought this was settled with hargreaves a few years back but it didn't work out. It happens......I agree with you though def mid is top priority along with a solution for an aging evra.

re: Manchester United 2012-13 Season Long Thread(Posted by WarSlamEagle on 10/24/12 at 12:08 pm to PTBob)

quote:We desperately need a DCM. Someone that can break up play and link up with our attack pretty well.

This should be our main winter transfer emphasis.

Moutinho, M'Vila, Fellaini, one of the Benders...whoever can play that role and play it well.

Our defenders are going to be fine. Like PTBob said, what happens if we get a new defensive guy and all of our old ones are healthy again? It's going to be hard enough rotating Evra, Ferdinand, Vidic, Rafael, Evans, Jones, Smalling, and Buttner...who do you need on top of that? (Only thing I could think of is a world-class RB, but then that limits Rafael's growth, and he's turned out to be a bright spot so far this year.)

re: Manchester United 2012-13 Season Long Thread(Posted by petar on 10/26/12 at 12:15 pm to WarSlamEagle)

One more quality center defender. all ours have injury problem except evans who sucks. I think we will be fine in the midfield. Carrick does not need to play defense; we need him to be our defensive mid. Fletcher getting healthy will help us there too